Video Information: 20.04.23, SRCC, Delhi
Context:
~ What is Acharya Prashant's success mantra?
~ How to be successful in life?
~ What is the right discipline to inculcate in life?
~ Importance of knowing
~ How can scriptures get one success?
~ Don't be a spiritual chameleon.
Music Credits: Milind Date
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Context:
~ What is Acharya Prashant's success mantra?
~ How to be successful in life?
~ What is the right discipline to inculcate in life?
~ Importance of knowing
~ How can scriptures get one success?
~ Don't be a spiritual chameleon.
Music Credits: Milind Date
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LearningTranscript
00:00Does the person you are with encourage you to read?
00:06You have to ask, what does he bring for me? Roses or books?
00:11If someone has a stake in making you better, that person will push you towards books.
00:17Books are what we all need.
00:30A Chary Prashant is a reverend teacher and philosopher, renowned for his wisdom and compassion.
00:52He has guided millions on the path of self-knowledge and liberation.
00:56A best-selling author of over 100 books, Acharya Prashant is an alumnus of IIT Delhi and I.M. Ahmedabad
01:04and a former civil service officer.
01:07Once an all-India topper of CAT examination, he is now one of the most followed wisdom teacher in the world
01:14with over 15 million followers across social media.
01:19His teachings place a strong emphasis on self-awareness.
01:23With his eloquence, practical approach and compassionate nature,
01:28A Chary Prashant inspires individuals to lead a more authentic life
01:32and make a positive impact in this world.
01:36It gives us immense pleasure to host A Chary Prashant on our campus.
01:41We thank you, sir, for accepting our invitation
01:43and welcome you to interact with the students of Exarsity.
01:48Thank you. Thank you so much.
01:49We now pass on the stage to the members of Prashant Adwait Foundation
01:55to please take the session forward.
01:56Thank you so much.
01:59Good afternoon, Injahin, sir.
02:01I'm Rhea Tiwari, a student of Delhi University.
02:04And my question to you is, sir,
02:06that people define success by different terms
02:09like influence, happiness, fame, or name, fame, etc.
02:14So, sir, when did you started considering yourself success?
02:18Yes.
02:19First of all, thanks for inviting me here.
02:28I don't consider myself a success even today.
02:34So, your question is founded on an assumption.
02:40And you say that when in the past did you start considering yourself a success?
02:45You're assuming that at some point I did or currently I do.
02:50No, I don't.
02:50I don't think there is any end point called success.
03:01Because as long as one is alive, there is more and more to be done continuously.
03:10One can declare herself successful only if the target is too small, too limited.
03:24And then you can get close to the target or win it and say that you are successful.
03:36But that kind of declaration means nothing.
03:39One is then just fooling, pampering himself.
03:45Does not mean much.
03:46Does not mean much.
03:47Does not mean much.
03:48There can be milestones along the way.
03:52As you move, as you move, you can probably see that you are going past a few important points.
04:04And even those points are important only relatively, right?
04:12Relative to where you currently stand, you might find that a few milestones mean much to you.
04:22But in the overall sense, in the absolute perspective, hardly anything that you have gone past makes much significance or holds too much of a meaning, right?
04:46So, one has to continuously keep moving this notion of becoming successful.
04:58This idea that by reaching a particular point or by having a certain accomplishment, one can
05:07declare himself as successful is not very mature and is also dangerous because it limits you.
05:22It tells you that there are certain things to be had.
05:27And more or less those things are universal, right?
05:31You want to have an educational degree, you want to have a job, you want to have money,
05:36you want to have a settled kind of life, and you want to be regarded highly in the society.
05:45And if you have all these things, then you start calling yourself successful.
05:49This is a limiting, rather debilitating idea.
05:58It will not allow you to move beyond these things that we just listed.
06:07And even among these things, you know, what is it that counts in the common idea of success?
06:15Money.
06:16Because if you have money, prestige can be bought.
06:20If you have money, much under the sun can be bought.
06:28So primarily the idea of success as it is prevalent in the youth today, and it's being aggressively
06:35sold in the market, is about having money.
06:39If you have enough money, you can call yourself successful.
06:42No, that is not a valid idea, right?
06:49Because you have to look at yourself and ask yourself, who am I?
06:57Why am I born?
06:58Why do I exist at all?
07:02Is there complete fulfillment?
07:04Isn't there more that needs to be done?
07:09Isn't the fire still burning?
07:14There are frontiers after frontiers.
07:16There are skies beyond skies.
07:19How can you stop at some place and just abruptly, randomly, arbitrarily call yourself successful?
07:33What I have seen from my little experience and when I look at my peers and my batch mates,
07:44is that the moment you call yourself successful, you start stagnating.
07:51Because success is like a destination, no?
07:55The idea that we have been sold is that you move to attain success.
08:06Extend it logically, then it means that success is the end of all movement.
08:13If one moves, that is, if one works to attain success, if that is the idea, then success will
08:19be the end of all movement, right?
08:22The destination.
08:26And if you reach the destination, then what are you still traveling for?
08:35If the train has reached its destination, you are supposed to deboard, aren't you?
08:40And if you don't get down on your own, you are thrown out.
08:44That's the meaning of success.
08:45Deboard.
08:46Finished.
08:47Game up.
08:48How do you want to finish the game so early, too early?
08:56Life is anyway short.
08:59Life is anyway short.
09:00You can never have too much of it.
09:04And on top of it, you want to end it inwardly at the age of 30, 35 or 40.
09:12That doesn't make sense, right?
09:15So Vedan says, Charaiveti, Charaiveti, Continuously keep moving.
09:20Don't fool yourself by declaring yourself as arrived.
09:25Don't tell yourself that you have reached any important position.
09:30Don't inflate yourself.
09:33Don't become a big one or a successful one in your own eyes.
09:40Find that humility and don't douse the fire, right?
09:49Because that's the fact.
09:50Nobody is yet fully liberated as long as he or she is alive.
09:58Which means that the mission still remains unfulfilled.
10:03If you are breathing, if you are still breathing, then the mission remains on till your last breath.
10:17You are somebody who must keep working, walking, moving.
10:25So first thing I would advise, know what is it in life that you must keep striving for, working towards.
10:38And then endlessly work in that direction.
10:44Let there be a direction, but never a destination, right?
10:50So you know the broad direction in which you have to move.
10:54And the movement has to be immense, endless, infinite.
11:01One moves in the direction of liberation without ever arriving.
11:08That's something that does not quite please the ego, because the ego likes to arrive.
11:12It likes to settle matters.
11:15It's like to say the end.
11:18The matter stands concluded.
11:22Don't fall in that trap.
11:25Thank you, sir.
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